Quotes About Growth

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.

The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.

Time has a way of changing things, and change is gone come whether we like it or not.

The difficulty is not to find your purpose, it's to face it.

If life didn't have hurdles, there wouldn't be anything for us to do and existence wouldn't be worth it.

Things that happened in your life where meant to happen, to make you who you are. We all have our purpose and destiny in this life. And although some things may seem like mistakes or accidents, soon you will realize that they had to happen so that you can be where you need to be.

The quality and beauty of a life depends on the meanings and definations that are added to it daily.

Life shouldn't be about making yourself a better person, life should be about bettering your self to be the person you want to be.

Just because you miss someone, that doesn't mean you need them back. Missing is just a part of moving on.

The same way I could live when I didn't know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But the only difference is before knowing you I didn't miss you while now I do.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive li

The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.

A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

The greatest love you can give another is the kind that originates in the heart, one that doesn't change over the days, but grows over time and blossoms into a fountain of new life....

A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.

Never exaggerate on someone's mistake to make oneself comfortable, but with Love and Honesty, learn to motivate and grow thyself.